Hints and tips:
...I often turn to the mantras penned by the long-dead people whose work I admire and take inspiration from: the American decorators Nancy Lancaster and Dorothy Draper, say, or the English designer David Hicks...
...The late David Hicks used to grow vegetables and flowers in dustbins painted a dark shade of green....
...In 2003 Scanner was asked by the Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré in Garches, near Paris, to create a sonic backdrop for their salle des départs, or morgue....
...In a moment of breathtaking cheek, he imagines Bill Hicks living on and selling out to commercialism; Stanhope makes noises like Hicks, but is entirely devoid of the challenging element to his material....
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